Trump/Palin accuse liberals of using "political correctness kind of like a suicide vest". [View all]

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Palin said:

“Well, he being the only one who’s been willing, he’s got the guts to wear the issues that need to be spoken about and debate on his sleeve, where the rest of some of these establishment candidates, they just wanted to duck and hide. They didn’t want to talk about these issue until he brought ‘em up. In fact, they’ve been wearing a, this, political correctness kind of like a suicide vest. And enough is enough. These issues that Donald Trump talks about had to be debated. And he brought them to the forefront. And that’s why we are where we are today with good discussion. A good, heated, and very competitive primary is where we are. And now though, to be lectured that, “Well, you guys are all sounding kind of angry,” is what we’re hearing from the establishment. Doggone right we’re angry! Justifiably so! Yes! You know, they stomp on our neck, and then they tell us, “Just chill, okay just relax.” Well, look, we are mad, and we’ve been had. They need to get used to it.”

The phrase originated among American Communists, possibly as early as the 1940s and may initially have been a Jewish-American socialist critique of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Jewish-American Communists found that one a hard pill to swallow, but were told to toe the party line , and they said they refused to be “politically correct.” But its contemporary resonances come out of the 1970s and 1980s, when liberals, feminists and New Leftists used it to make fun of doctrinaire positions of any sort.

So what did Palin mean by “politically correct” being used by politicians as a sort of terrorism? She meant that in normal American society it has become inappropriate to say racist things in public, about immigrants and minorities. And she is suggesting that anyone who orally reproaches Trump and Palin for this racism is exercising a form of terrorism.

So frank racism is not only being rehabilitated by Trump and his acolytes like Palin, but Trump is associating it with patriotism. The notion of “not having time for” respectful and ethical political language because the country is allegedly in the throes of an extreme crisis is classic fascism. Basic constitutional rights and even just common decency need to be jettisoned because we are in a hurry over this vague and never-specified menace.

http://www.juancole.com/2016/01/palin-for-trump-political-correctness-anti-racism-is-a-suicide-bomb-vest.html